Lil
How many real pets are named Lil, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Lil as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 118 pets are named Lil: 116 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 49% are female and 51% male. It ranks #668 among dog names and #3,720 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Lil
Dogs
- Chihuahua: 18
- Pit Bull: 11
- Shih Tzu: 8
- Pomeranian: 5
- Yorkshire Terrier: 5
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Lil
- New York City: 111licensed
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 2licensed
- Burnside (SA): 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
- Austin shelter: 1shelter
Lil as a human name
This is the meaning of Lil as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A diminutive of the female given name Lilian/Lillian/Lily.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Lil
Dog names about as popular as Lil
Lil FAQ
How many pets are named Lil?
In the public pet records we track, 118 pets are named Lil: 116 dogs, 2 cats. Where sex was recorded, 49% are female and 51% male. It ranks #668 among dog names and #3,720 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Lil?
Among dogs named Lil in these records, the most common breed is Chihuahua.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Burnside Dog Registrations (CC BY 3.0 AU); Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.